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Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott
RRP: £14.99£10.95Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn't his... -
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Vivid, thrilling, a delight ... Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and ecologist of global standing, and this is a compelling and authoritative narrative of the evolution of Europe's flora and fauna, from the formation of the continent to its near... -
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human... -
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans De Waal
RRP: £13.99£11.64For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate societies that further cements the case for the biological... -
Under a White Sky: Can we save the natural world in time? by Elizabeth Kolbert
RRP: £9.99£7.11The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?Meet the biologists trying to save the... -
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins 9780141026176
RRP: £12.99£9.09***20th Anniversary Edition - With a New Introduction***Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of Climbing Mount Improbable features a unique shell. No two covers are exactly alike.How could such an intricate object as the human eye - so... -
Evolutionary Religion by J. L. Schellenberg 9780198744368
£25.02J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the possible history of intelligent life on our planet, and should frame our religious attitudes accordingly. Humans have begun to adapt to... -
Life: an Unauthorized Biography by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: £12.99£8.48A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers. What do any of us know about the history of our planet before the arrival... -
Sentient: A Journey Through the Sensory Worlds of Humans and Other Animals by Jackie Higgins
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Jackie Higgins's lyrical, literate style will charm you while her book stuns your imagination with strange, other-worldly truths' Richard DawkinsSentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures - from land, air, sea and all four corners of the... -
The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture by Peter Bellwood 9780691258812
RRP: £17.99£15.52The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally... -
Nature via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human by Matt Ridley
RRP: £12.99£9.09Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of... -
Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle Andreas Wagner 9781780747651
RRP: £12.99£9.09Darwin's theory of natural selection was a monumental step in our understanding of evolution, explaining how useful adaptations are preserved over generations. However, Darwin's great idea didn't - and couldn't - tell us how those adaptations arise in... -
Trilobite! by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: £10.99£7.25'In Richard Fortey's capable hands the humble grey trilobite has been transformed into the E.T. of the Lower Palaeozoic - a remarkable and fascinating book.' SIMON WINCHESTER Richard Fortey is one of Britain's leading popular scientists. Life:... -
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £12.99£9.09Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. 'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal... A beautifully produced book that will appeal across age groups'... -
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine Professor Steve Jones 9781408705940
RRP: £10.99£7.40Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many... -
Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us by Richard O. Prum
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year 2017. Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780345804570Author Richard O. PrumFormat... -
Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe by Trenton W. Holliday 9780231204972
RRP: £25.00£19.59During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as... -
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time by Michael J. Benton
RRP: £22.50£15.27The greatest mass extinction in Earth's history happened some 251 million years ago. In this cataclysm at least 90% of life was killed, both on land and in the sea, almost bringing evolution to a halt. What caused destruction on such an unimaginable... -
Big Bang by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: £16.99£11.47The bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code Book tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang. A fascinating exploration of the ultimate question: how was our universe created? Albert... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin
RRP: £20.00£17.62A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands... -
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture by Jerome H. Barkow 9780195101072
RRP: £78.00£59.66From reviews of the hardback: "A fascinating book which deserves a wide audience." European Medical Journal "a very significant contribution to the field of evolutionary thinking on human psychology and culture." British Journal of... -
The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution by Carl Zimmer 9781936221448
£62.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936221448Author Carl ZimmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Roberts & Company PublishersPublisher Macmillan Learning -
The Material Basis of Evolution by Richard B. Goldschmidt 9780300028232
£32.21In this book, Goldschmidt inquires into the types of hereditary differences that produce new species. Goldschmidt used a wide range of research to formulate his own picture of evolution. Contrary to near-unanimity among scientists, he insisted that the... -
Evolution: The Whole Story by Steve Parker
RRP: £19.95£14.93Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living group and presents thematic essays discussing the... -
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime Professor A. Roger Ekirch 9781474624916
RRP: £10.99£7.40A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick Moore'A triumph of social history. Almost every... -
It Was Snowing Butterflies by Charles Darwin 9780141398556
RRP: £3.00£2.49'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate... -
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul Davies
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept of life is changing, read this' Professor Andrew Briggs, University of OxfordWhen Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper... -
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan 9780008487539
RRP: £9.99£6.64Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic. ... -
Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality Jules Howard 9781472915092
RRP: £18.99£13.61There is nothing more life-affirming than understanding death in all its forms. Natural selection depends on death; little would evolve without it. Every animal on Earth is shaped by its presence and fashioned by its spectre. We are all survivors of... -
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £13.99£12.65Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends "the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first" (Discover). Refashioning the story of human evolution, Wilson draws on his remarkable... -
The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones
RRP: £11.99£8.43Steve Jones's highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep.'An essential sightseer's guide to our own genetic terrain.' Peter Tallack,... -
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £12.99£9.09"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species... -
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
RRP: £12.99£7.51'A work of remarkable scope' - GuardianFT Best science books of 2018Primate Change has been adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE.*This is the road from climate change to primate change.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at... -
Genesis And The Big Bang by Gerald L. Schroeder
RRP: £15.99£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553354133Author Gerald SchroederFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
A Brief History of the Last 13.8 Billion Years: a journey through life, the universe, and everything by David Baker
RRP: £14.99£9.80How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're all made from stars? Combining knowledge from chemistry, biology, and physics, with insights from the social... -
Analyzing Animal Societies: Quantitative Methods for Vertebrate Social Analysis by Hal Whitehead
RRP: £33.00£32.05Animals lead rich social lives. They care for one another, compete for resources, and mate. Within a society, social relationships may be simple or complex and usually vary considerably, both between different groups of individuals and over time. These... -
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
RRP: £16.99£14.05Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced... -
The Hidden History of the Human Race: The Condensed Edition of "Forbidden Archeology" by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133253
£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892133253Author Michael A. CremoFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams)... -
Understanding Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall
RRP: £11.99£8.92Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains... -
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan Jose Millas
RRP: £14.99£9.80A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all. Perhaps he is a...